Processing life and work events

US8214737B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Martin Botscheck · Foster City, US
• Udo Waibel · Foster City, US
• Mirjam Sonnleithner · San Francisco, US
• Wolfram Hepp · Heidelberg, DE
• Martin Zurmuehl · Östringen, DE
• Heiko Schultze · Wiesloch, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 31, 2002
• Grant date: Jul 3, 2012
• Expiry date: May 3, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S715/963
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method allows a user to process a life or work event by enabling the user to perform certain operations, including creating at least one event instance based on an event definition that includes a specification of data required from an external source, a list of tasks to be completed, a task order, and one or more resources associated with each task, and processing the event instance by importing the data from the external source and by iteratively allowing the user to select a task in accordance with the task order and to access the resources associated with the selected task. The imported data may be used to pre-populate forms, or as other input within the tasks. If the imported data is processed or used to produce output data, the output data may be exported to an external destination.